Dreaming About Having Meltdowns

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I keep having dreams about experiencing what I would think is a meltdown. I have no idea why because I've never had a meltdown in my life (I do shutdown). Does anyone else have similar dreams?

I do have meltdowns, but yes, I do sometimes dream about having them.

I have meltdowns at least once a month sometimes more and I have had dreams about having meltdowns too. They're quite horrific and difficult to tolerate.

I wouldn't wish this life on anyone.

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*** High Functioning Autism - Asperger's Syndrome ***

ADHD, OCD, and PTSD.

Keep calm and stim away.

I used to have dreams about meltdowns that weren't safe to have irl. It was my mind's way of coping.

I had an epic meltdown in a nightmare last night where I dreamt everyone was against me and deliberately winding me up to proof how incapable I am. My family were in on it and my work colleagues and social services. In it, my line manager tried to make me work with this work colleague who frustrates me and they kept shouting in my hit and then I hit out and started going around the place, smashing the place up.

I have. Even NTs do. It's fairly normal to dream about it actually.
I never stim or tic in dreams. It feels strangely freeing.

I can recall my dreams pretty much every single night.

But I have never thought of labelling any of them as a sort of meltdown. That had not crossed my mind.

that, when i have a dream, rarely, it's that, getting all worked up about not being able to speak (heard)

I rarely recall my dreams but I do recall one nightmare with a meltdown.

After spending some time on a beautiful river. It ran through a forest and the sunlight was golden, like it was dawn or dusk. I could hear the water run and the birds sing. I loved it.

Then, I rounded a bend and it vanished. Instead I found myself in a windowless office space, lit by those florescent lights and filled with cubicles separated by those awful dividers. Phones rang and fingers clicked loudly across keyboards. Some one came up and welcomed me, telling me I'd be working here for the rest of my life.

I dreamed I ran into a corner near a window which was now there, curled up in it and started rocking, crying and screaming. I would try to hit anyone who came close. I couldn't think right, I was too terrified. It was worse than any meltdown that I can recall having in my waking hours.

I'm honestly surprised that I didn't scream aloud and wake the whole house up. I was so happy when I woke up and found that I was in my bed at home and it had all been a bad dream.